05x01 - Line Of Fire

[bunniefuu]

Anchorwoman: the carr fire
in northern california

Is now growing
and claiming more lives.

It is literally snowing
ash here.

Are you guys okay? It's
a miracle you're still here.

Our poor neighbors, their place
burnt down to the ground.

When a fire breaks out, all of
these animals are going to die.

This homestead is a match
waiting to be struck.

What's your escape plan?

-Escape plan?
-Show me right now.

You guys have zero
defensible space.

We got a machine.
Bring it in.

All right, guys.
Let her rip.

That is going to be converted
to an evacuation ark.

Are we losing pressure?

I guarantee you, it will catch
your guys' house on fire.

Forest fire,
I'm not joking.

Go.

You guys
are at 2 minutes.

Shut that door.

You have to think
about what can go wrong

Because lives are at stake.

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♪♪

This is california,
the land of blue sky, right?

Well, all I see is
just a thick layer of smoke.

Look at
all of the vehicles.

It's almost like a tornado.

Like, it's skipping a house,
burning a house down.

It's just scorched.
It's crazy.

We've never been
in a more urgent

Forest-fire situation
than this.

Narrator: the raneys are heading


Of redding, california.

Here the golden state's


Produce more than 2/3
of the nation's fruit and nuts,

But only if the land
is untouched by drought

And the ever
increasing wildfires.

California's carr fire
has already devastated


And k*lled 8 people.

At the time of filming,
it's still burning.

And one homestead
sits perilously close

To one of the most destructive
fires in california's history.

At any time,
the winds could change,

And those fires could be
right here at my back door.

Lacey:
raneys, we have three active
wildfires around us right now.

We need your help.

♪♪

Wow, got a lot of trees
on this property.

Hello.
Anybody home?

-Yeah!
-Marty raney.

Alan grant. How you doing?
Alan?

Yeah.
Nice to meet you.

I'm anthony.

Misty.
Lacey.

Are you guys okay?

It's a miracle
you're still here.

We had some big fires,
you know, all around us.

It looks like there was a fire
right down the road.

Both: there was.

That was super close.

Our poor neighbors,
their place

Burnt down to the ground,
you know?

It's --
lacey: it's gone.

It's gone, yeah.

♪♪

Narrator:
in 2008, alan grant was hit hard

By the devastating
financial crash...

Alan: came up here and
just started over again.

Narrator:
...forcing him to build
a new life with his son

And young twin daughters.

Anthony: we lost our house.

Moving out of sacramento,
it was tough.

I was brought up on a homestead.

My goal is to have my kids
live off the land

Knowing how to homestead
and survive.

Narrator: alan purchased


Making the most
of off-grid life.

Alan:
this is a beautiful area.

They get to experience
the nature, the outdoors.

Isn't that cool?

He then met healthcare worker
lacey mckinley.

Lacey: so I'm at the roller
rink, and I see this guy,

And he's showing off,
and I was like, "hmm, not bad."

She was cute, and I said,
"hi," and...

He was funny.
He's like a clown.

[ Laughs ]

Narrator:
lacey moved in, and they aimed
for a life of self-sufficiency

Growing crops
and raising livestock.

We have rabbits, five goats,
the chickens, and the ducks,

And he wants a pig.

I told him, "no."

[ Laughs ]

But to make ends meet,
alan works as a contractor

And has little time
for homestead tasks...

All I do is to go to work,
and I'm not able

To do everything
that needs to be done.

Narrator:
...leaving lacey to run
the homestead alone.

Stop it!

It seems like if it could
go wrong, it will go wrong.

No!
No, no, no!

The goats don't have
a pen right now.

They run wherever
they want to run.

They rule this place.

That's our meat buck.

He reared up, so I swung my leg,
and I ended up breaking my foot.

All of this right here
is poison oak.

I'm highly allergic.

I can't handle the goats because
they're covered in poison oak,

And I'm the only one that knows
how to milk the goat here,

So I can't get away from it.

Narrator:
but now their lives are in
danger as wildfires rage nearby.

Lacey:
what the hell is going on?

That's not a rain cloud.

That's smoke.

It is literally
snowing ash here.

It's huge.
I've caught it.

♪♪

Alan: I had to send my daughters
to their grandmother's

During this fire outbreak.

I love you guys.

And I'll be calling you
every day, okay?

All right.

Lacey:
there's an empty part of me.

They're not here.

Alan: please help us
fire protect our homestead

And make this safe
so I can bring my girls home.

Your kids are at
their grandparents' house

Because of the --

Correct, correct.

That's how risky you feel
this property is.

It is, yeah.

Misty:
this is terrifying.

We all have kids, so we take
this real seriously.

Time is of the essence

More than any homestead
we've ever visited.

Narrator: misty checks
the livestock situation.

Misty: you have goats.

Lacey: and a horse, and we have
two hens, but we had more,

And, well, they're nothing
but feathers now.

How are
they getting eaten?

The goats
open up the door.

Really?

I had my foot broken.

I spend quite a bit of time
chasing the goats,

Trying to keep them
on the property.

Why are the goats
not behind a fence?

No time.

Alan is gone
all of the time.

I don't have
the know-how.

Because I definitely thought
we were going to be

Dealing with the fires,
but this has to be addressed.

It's just, like, at what point
do you do something

About the goats?

Narrator: across the homestead,
matt needs to assess

How flammable
the grants' property is.

So, anthony, I mean,
first things first,

There is a lot of debris.

I see a lot of straw, hay,
and there's a lot of needles

From the pine trees,
I mean, huge red flags.

I'm totally convinced that
if a fire came through here,

Every single thing that you guys
have will go up in flames,

And so we have to make
this homestead

Have its best chance
of survival,

But right now, this house
has zero fighting chance.

Thinking about losing
this place, it's devastating.

If it burns down, it's --

We got
nowhere else to go.

Yeah.

Matt:
anthony has already lost one
home when he was 7 years old.

Imagine if they lost this home.

That's just something
I won't stand for.

Narrator:
with a tinderbox homestead,

Marty wants the lowdown
on alan's wildfire strategy.

Marty: I can't help but just
look right off this window.

Alan: oh, yeah.
I see trees.

Look right out there.
Yeah.

There's nothing more flammable
in the planet than that --

Than that down, dead pine.
Yeah.

If a fire broke out today,
what's your escape plan?

Escape plan?

Show me right now, right now,
right this second.

There's flames.
Show me.

All right.
Let's go then.

We come out,
grab all of my kids,

And then
we jump in the car.

Which car?
Show me.

Okay,
you jump in this car,

And those animals are going
to survive in a forest fire?

If there was a fire,
people open their fences,

Let their animals out.
Okay.

And to let those animals fend
for themselves is pretty crazy.

It is crazy.

What this homestead needs
is an evacuation plan.

Yes.

This homestead is
a match waiting to be struck.

♪♪

Misty: whole homestead is going
to catch on fire.

This is the most flammable
homestead

That we've ever visited,
and that's a fact.

We need to remove
the most trees,

I mean,
we've ever removed probably.

There's a serious
fire threat,

But all of the goats
are running wild.

It's arma-goat-on.

[ Laughs ]

Narrator:
the raneys have just 7 days
to save the grants' homestead.

They need to urgently remove
all brush and trees

To create
a defensible fire break.

Misty plans to build
a new, secure pen

So lacey can keep her
troublesome goats under control,

And marty must devise
a strategy for the family

And their livestock so they can
make a quick and safe escape.

Marty: what this homestead needs
is an evacuation plan

Because things go wrong,
and people die.

Narrator:
northern california.

Anchorwoman:
this morning, more wildfires
are roaring across california,

Forcing more
mandatory evacuations.

Narrator: the raneys
are saving a homestead

Surrounded by wildfires.

It is literally
snowing ash here.

With livestock at risk
and no evacuation plan...

I could lose my homestead,
or I could even lose my family.

Narrator:
...this situation is so grave,

The grants have sent
their twin girls away to safety.

I love you guys, and I'll be
calling you every day, okay?

Now in a bid to reunite
this family,

The raneys have a fire
protection and evacuation plan.

How many animals
are on this homestead?



These goats,
they're a life.

They have importance.
They have value.

Just trying to get them
reigned in,

Fenced in, manageable is
kind of what I'm thinking.

See that trailer over there?
Yes.

That is going to be
converted to an ark.

You read the bible?
Yeah.

All those rabbits,
all those goats and a horse

Will be on that ark ready
to go when the fire comes.

You know,
all of the animals,

Everything that you guys
have built here,

That's all
really important,

But right now, you guys have
zero percent chance of survival

If a fire
comes through here.

A good, defensible space
could be up to 100 feet.

Would you please sign off
on a 100-foot perimeter

Around your house?

Are you willing
to do that?

-Yes.
-Yes.
-Okay.

Knowing that we're going to have


And being able to get
all of the animals out,

I think I'll be able
to sleep better at night.

Narrator:
the next morning as new fires
break out across the county,

Marty faces
his first big problem.

Marty: every excavator within


I have called in a favor
not for one,

But for two pieces
of equipment.

Neither are an excavator.

♪♪

We got a machine.

Narrator: marty's local contact
has come through

With state-of-the-art
logging machines.

Marty: hey, pekka.

All right.
Marty.

I can't believe it.

You heard of the elephant
in the room?

Well, that's the elephant
on the homestead.

Look at that thing.

What a beast, and of course,

We refer to this one
as the bear.

This is one bear you do want
to visit your homestead,

So elephant in the room...

Misty: ready?
The bear is ready.

Let's go.

This eight-wheeled, 26-ton bear

Is a 350-horsepower
industrial logging harvester.

All right, guys.
Let her rip.

The multi-chain-saw
grapple head...

Whoo!

...grabs, limbs, and chops up
huge trees in seconds.

-Whoo-hoo!
-Look at it go.

The ponsse elephantking follows,

Stacking the logs to be used as
building materials and firewood.

This is the bear
looking for the elephant.

Whoo!

[ Roars ]

Who needs lipstick
and shoes?

I need one of these.

Within hours, the bear
fells over 50 danger trees.

Misty: a fire could sweep
through tomorrow.

Having these pieces of equipment
that come in and do in minutes

What would take us a week,
it's pretty mind-blowing.

[ Groans ] phew.
What do you think?

-Oh, awesome.
-Game changer, huh?

Yes, it is.

Forest fires are burning
in california right now.

Marty: 229,651 acres
have burned to date.

I mean,
this is a serious,

Serious theme of california
right now.

Narrator: the next morning,
after 4 weeks of destruction,

The carr fire is 88% contained.


A new fire in hirz bay ignites.

Well, this is exciting.
I get to meet them?

Yeah.
Okay.

Until the homestead
is fire protected,

The grant twins cannot return.

Hi, I'm misty.

I'm britney,
and this is sara.

Were you here for the fire that
came really close to your house?

Yeah.
I'm kind of scared about it.

Misty: you're not going to
believe it when you come back

Because the evacuation plan
has started.

It'd be great to see
if we could get

All of the animals
somewhere safe.

Everything, everybody
evacuates together.

Yep.
all of the animals.

Sound good?

Yeah.
Yeah.

Misty:
the rush is on to get this
homestead safe as can be

So they can come home.

Narrator:
over 100 trees are clear-cut.

The homestead and livestock
are still at risk.

Marty plans to build an ark
from alan's old trailer

So the family
and their 47 animals

Can escape in 5 minutes flat.

Every animal on this homestead
can fit on this ark

Without losing one.

All right, noah.

[ Both laugh ]

They'll build the ark's frame
and walls from lumber

And roof it
with metal sheeting.

Individual sections will house
the grants' animals

So they can be loaded
and then evacuated in a fire.

Marty: what do you think
that horse weighs?

Alan: at least 1,500 pounds.
All right.

Jump up and down.

You think a horse
will fall through there?

No.
Good answer.

Start screwing.

♪♪

How would you get a line
from here to here?

Quick, how?

Give me that thing.

Whoa!

Put the tape there.

Put your pencil on it.

Boom.
Run your finger down here.

♪♪

Nice.
Catch.

Whoa!

It is nice doing work, and
it's nice having good company.

Oh, yeah, do-si-do.

[ Laughs ]

In place.

You tight?
Yeah.

Good, man.

Goat slash rv.

Yeah.
I like it.

Narrator: across the homestead,

Misty focuses on helping lacey
secure her unruly goats.

Misty: these goats, lacey gets
poison oak all over her.

They've caused injuries.

They're just totally
out of control.

Narrator:
misty and lacey will mark out
a 50-square-foot goat enclosure.

Cedar posts will be set
every 6 feet

And secured by metal fencing,

Keeping the goats in
and predators out.

Do you want to see
a easy way to pour concrete?

Lacey: sure.

Sometimes, you can get away
with just pouring it dry,

But because it hasn't rained
in months and months,

And there's
fires everywhere,

Something tells me we're going
to need to add a little water.

I'm going to do it
by sight

Because this is
what I did growing up.

Pretty easy, huh?
That's awesome.

Up plumb, whoo.
That's good.

♪♪

You guys have been here
how long?

We started homesteading
november of last year.

And you homeschool
your kids.

Yes.
That's a lot.

It is.

I'm overloaded.

If I'm not spending 2 hours
a day chasing goats,

I'm homeschooling,

And it's not safe here
with all of the wildfires.

If the raneys
wouldn't have shown up,

How long
would you have lasted?

Not much longer,

And so a lot has changed
for the better.

I don't think that would have
happened without you guys.

Misty: she's at the breaking
point, you know?

She's in tears, and that's not
even going into the fire

And how much of a threat
it actually is.

Narrator: coming up...

It's time to put the entire
system to the test.

Narrator:
the raneys pull out every trick.

And it's an amazing
cheap little trick

You can use
to treat lumber.

And matt meets
a local fire hero.

Just roaring, it sounded
like a train coming at you.

Narrator: in one of california's
deadliest wildfire seasons,

The grant family
has been separated.

Alan:
I love you guys, and I'll be
calling you every day, okay?

The raneys are 4 days
into their mission

Fireproofing
the entire homestead

So the twins can return.

Everything, everybody
evacuates together.

Huge machines have
clear-cut scores of trees.

This is so cool,
man.

Misty has set 24 fence posts
for a new, safe goat enclosure,

And marty is building
an evacuation ark

For the family
and their livestock.

Time is of the essence

More than any homestead
we've ever visited.

♪♪

Matt: we've made a huge
defensible space,

But I still don't think
that we've done enough.

Matt heads 20 miles west
to burnt-out redding.

That's crazy, man.

I'm going to meet a guy
that saved his house,

And I want to get his story

Because I don't know
how you can win against fire.

When the carr fire
hit redding...

Thanks for
having me over, man.

You're quite welcome.

...navy vet roger
stopped his house

From burning to the ground.

I want to know everything
that you did to fight that fire.

It was just roaring.

It sounded like a train
coming at you.

We're visiting
a family on a homestead.

Their house
is really susceptible.

I had sprinklers in
the front yard and in the back.

It wasn't like
I was watering the grass.

I was turning it
into mud...

Okay.
...and also manning a hose.

I'm really impressed,
and that takes a lot of courage.

I highly respect that.

Well, it takes courage
to stay,

And it takes courage
to leave, too.

Dude, are you
a firefighter, or...

I'm retired navy.
Okay.

And the navy is probably
one of the best

In teaching
firefighting skills,

And if you don't have
the experience or preparation,

You better get out because
you're going to put yourself

And everybody else at risk.

I'm inspired.

You've done worlds for me
and this family.

Thank you. Thank you.
Well, good. Good.

All right.
We'll see you later, man.

Thank you.

Matt: I need to get back
to the homestead

As quick as possible
and get a plan into action

So that when these people
evacuate their homes

That they'll actually have a
fighting chance of keeping them.

♪♪

Narrator: back on the homestead,
misty and lacey

Must now fence off
the new goat paddock.

Walk it over
to our corner post.

Okay.

So the corner post
needs to be the strongest.

There's so much tension
that's pulling on it,

So our little hack is all
of our corner posts are trees.

A stuck goat
is a dead goat.

You want your openings
to be 4 inches or smaller.

With goats with horns, they'll
get stuck in the fencing, right?

They'll poke their head through,
so this is perfect.



Is wrapped around
all of the posts and secured.

Now the posts must be
weatherproofed.

So what I've got from alan
is old motor oil.

I have diesel from his tractor,
and it's amazing,

Cheap little trick
you can use to treat lumber.

So a couple days ago,
you seemed real burned out.

Lacey: I was.
And now?

My stress level
is going down.

I just feel safer,
and if a fire does come through

The middle of the night,
it's not going to be, like,

Leaving everything
behind anymore.

Something as simple as a fence
makes the world of difference.

It does.

Misty: lacey spends 2 hours
a day trying to wrangle goats,

And time is money,

So just create something
that's more functional,

More manageable,
and spend your time elsewhere.

[ Horse neighs ]

Narrator:
across the homestead,

The evacuation ark's horse box
has been framed and roofed,

But the animals need
an access ramp.

This one has got
quite the bend in it.

See that?

We'll see if we can
straighten them.

I'll get the harvester.

Now it could backfire, and we
could just totally destroy it.

Narrator:
this ponsse monster weighs
the same as six ford pickups.

♪♪

It looks a lot better
than it did.

We had
a pretty big kink in it.

All right.
One man's car ramp...

That's right.
...is another man's horse ramp.

It'll probably slide,
guaranteed.

Pound on it.

How did you get out here
on this piece of property?

During the recession that hit,
I lost my place down there,

Came up here,
just started over again.

It was quite an ordeal trying to
get myself back together again.

After listening to alan
about hard times, frankly,

It just makes me
want to work harder

So that this homestead
will never ever be taken away

By anybody, including fire.

Narrator:
coming up, mother nature's
fury creeps ever closer.

I heard that there's
another fire

That broke out
somewhere around here,

And that this area came
this close to getting evacuated.

And matt's plan
gets dampened.

Matt:
I need to save the house.

If the shop
catches on fire,

I guarantee you
this would go up,

And it'd be the biggest
bonfire ever seen.

Narrator: as california burns,
the raneys battle to save

A homesteading dream
from going up in flames.

Lacey: that's not a rain cloud.
That's smoke.

Narrator:
in a bid to reunite two
daughters with their family...

They're at grandma's.
It's safer there.

Where it's safe
over there.

...a 100-foot defensible space
has been clear-cut.

Misty: whoo!

Alan: that's one big step
to bringing my twins home.

Narrator: and marty is racing
to finish an evacuation ark

So the family
can save themselves

And their livestock before
the next wildfire strikes.

Marty: we need every animal
on this homestead

To fit on that trailer.

♪♪

Narrator: inspired by a local
hero's fire strategy...

Anthony, check this out.

...matt plans to give
the grants' home

Extra protection in case
the fire jumps the clear-cut.

I noticed
this water spigot.

Do all of these work?

As far as I know,
they all work.

This is perfect.

We can tap into your guys'
water system here

And set up a sprinkler system
all the way around your house.

You guys turn a valve, evacuate
and save your house

Without even
having to be here.

Reusing the homestead's existing
water supply and plumbing,

Matt will bury eight


Around the perimeter
of the grants' house.

Each ditch will contain
an industrial-strength sprinkler

To soak the ground,

Creating a perimeter
of fire-retardant mud

That will help prevent
the property

Catching fire in an inferno.

I'm going to cut this out
and just repipe it,

Put a sprinkler right here.

I can just hold it out
like that,

And then if I take this
down here, just eyeball it,

And I just put my finger
on the pipe.

So where my thumb is, that's
the length of pipe I need.

Oh.
All right.

First sprinkler,
do you like it?

Anthony: yeah.

This thing needs to sh**t
out of here, like, 30 feet.

My biggest fear right now
is we get the sprinkler system

Up and running, turn on
the main, and then find out

That the pressure to each one
of these things is too weak.

♪♪

Narrator:
the next morning, the hirz fire
spreads ever closer.

I heard that there's
another fire

That broke out
somewhere around here,

And that this area came this
close to getting evacuated.

I'm not joking.
Time is a-wasting.

Marty is now under more pressure
to finish the evacuation ark.

Pull on this. Staple.
Pull tight.

Across the homestead,
the goats have a new enclosure.

Good news, we're done.

Whoo-hoo!
We're done with the fencing.

How does it look?
It looks awesome.

This entire fence was $47.

All we bought were staples
and some t-post clips.

I'm amazed.

Lacey: the fencing is
extremely important.

I can keep them confined
and not have to worry

About dropping what I'm doing
to go chase goats

All over the place.

Narrator: before the goats
were running wild, causing chaos

And swelling lacey's
face with poison oak.

Goaty, goaty, goaty,
goaty, goaty.

Now, they're secured in a


Made with lumber
from the clear-cut and all

For less than 50 bucks.

Lacey is able to manage her herd
and evacuate all of her animals

When threatened
by the next wildfire.

All right, lacey.
They're in.

They're in.
Whoo-hoo-hoo.

They're going to
be contained.

You're not covered
in poison oak,

And they're going to be ready
for the evacuation.

In a wildfire, matt's sprinkler
system will serve

As a vital last line of defense.

Matt:
this is the moment of truth.

All we got to do is turn on
the water and test this system.

Narrator: the water from
the six sprinklers must reach

At least 30 feet to drench
the ground around the buildings.

Matt: all right.
Let her rip.

Don't be afraid
to get wet

Because I want to know
where this actually goes.

♪♪

Matt: are you getting wet
right there?

Yeah, I'm getting wet.

All right.
This is three.

Are we losing pressure?

About a foot.

I'm going to
go turn on more.

We lost a little bit
of pressure.

All right.
So we got four on.

Did we lose any pressure?

Two and a half feet.

All right.
Last one.

We lost about 5 feet.

That's not good.

We have a huge pressure problem.

It's really k*lling
our distance.

Matt: if the shop catches on
fire, it's going to be so hot,

I guarantee you it will catch
your guys' house on fire.

This would go up, and it'd be
the biggest bonfire ever seen.

I need to save the house
and the shop.

With the water pressure
that we have now,

We don't have enough
to save this homestead.

Marty:
okay, here we go.

Narrator: coming up...

Where are you going?
Where are you going?

...the evacuation plan
is put to the test.

Misty:
you guys are at 2 minutes.

Matt: one goat left.
Let's go.

Narrator: six days ago,
the raneys arrived in the middle

Of one of california's
deadliest wildfires...

Alan:
our poor neighbors, their place
burnt down to the ground.

...to find a homestead
so flammable,

The family's twin daughters
had been sent to safety.

Please help us
bring my girls home.

Narrator: now they have cut
a 100-foot firebreak,

Built a fortified goat paddock,

And marty is roofing
the evacuation ark.

Marty: perfect.

Narrator: but with the hirz fire
raging just 20 miles away,

Matt's sprinkler defense system
still won't get the job done.

Matt: with the water pressure
that we have now,

We don't have enough
to save this homestead.

Anthony, what is this?

This is
our old water system.

It's definitely
got some water in it,

But this isn't going to
give us the pressure we need.

However, follow
this plumbing pipe,

And it's going right to this
pump, but does it work?

Matt: crank it.
Open it up.

Whoa-whoa!

That is so good.

Narrator:
the new sprinkler system is
connected to the old water pump,

But to give
effective protection,

The water must hit
matt 30 feet away.

Hit it.

All right.

I'm totally getting
sprayed right now.

That's awesome, man.
What do you think?

That's pretty far.
It's ripping.

That pump is working.

This is awesome.
Whoo!

Narrator:
before the raneys arrived,

The grants had a house at risk
of burning to a cinder.

This homestead is a match
waiting to be struck.

Narrator: for the price of just
eight extra spigot heads,

The entire homestead

Has an industrial-strength
sprinkler system

To saturate
the surrounding ground

Under threat from wildfire.

They spray far.

Matt: yeah.
I'm super impressed.

♪♪

It's the final day.

We've got less than 24 hours
here, and we're leaving.

Since the wildfire in carr,

Eight new fires have been
confirmed in shasta county.

Marty's ark is almost ready.

There's no way that horse
is going to walk up here

And feel comfortable with
his face against that wall.

So look out because
I'm coming through here

With a skilsaw blade.

Stand by.
Okay.

♪♪

Looking good.

Great.
This is going to work.

♪♪

Seven days ago, the grants
had no evacuation plan

For their livestock.

What's your escape plan?

Escape plan?
Show me right now.

Now on marty's evacuation ark

With an additional
chicken caboose,

The rabbits and birds
have new permanent homes.

When a fire strikes, the goats
and horse can be loaded on.

There you have it.

Once those goats
are in here,

You can quarantine them off
from the horse.

It's perfect, yeah.
Okay.

Shut the door, and what's the
next thing you do after that?

Get out.

Exactly.

We've got an evacuation trailer
that's pulling a chicken coop.

It's time to put
the entire system to the test.

Narrator:
a successful evacuation
is anything under 5 minutes.

All right, guys. Forest fire,
you got a phone call.

Fire department
came down here, whatever.

Where are you going?
Where are you going?

Anthony:
to turn on the sprinklers.

Turn on the sprinklers,
very good.

Look at him run.

Lacey: come on, goats.

Goaty, goaty, goaty,
goaty, goaty, goaty.

♪♪

Five goats are on.
What's next? What's next?

Okay, you guys are at


Marty: go!

♪♪

Looking good.
Looking good.

♪♪

We're at 2 1/2 minutes.

Narrator: the grants must now
calmly load their horse.

If it bolts, they fail.

♪♪

It's okay, girl.
Come on.

Good girl.

That horse is
a little apprehensive.

Good girl.

♪♪

Marty: you got it.

-Every animal is loaded.
-Okay. Here we go.

Whoo!

♪♪

All right.
Shut it off.

You guys won't believe this --


-Whoo!
-You went 3 1/2 minutes.

The most exciting thing is
those beautiful little girls,

Would you say
it's safe enough...

Alan: it's safe.
Yep.

...for them to come home
and be here?

I want them to come home.
Thank you.

You're welcome.

Couldn't have done this
without all of you.

Marty: it comes down to this.

In case of a spark,
get on the...

Ark.
Yeah.

Get on that.

See you later, guys.

Alan: bye-bye.

It's a good feeling
to drive out of here

Knowing that their dream
of homesteading in california

Will not go up in smoke.

We are very happy that you
helped us with our homestead.

In 4 minutes, we could have this
thing completely loaded up

With all of our animals
and gone.

Lacey: I'm not having to
chase goats anymore.

Now they've got some big rocks
to jump on and play.

Unfortunately, there's been
another huge fire.

My stepdad lost everything.

He now lives with us
here on the homestead.

So now we have
the sprinkler systems.

We can drive away
from our house

Knowing that our house
is getting water.

Thank you, raneys.
Thank you.